THE HUMONGUS

 

The body drifted bobbing up and down on the surface of the water it had been dumped there like old trash the person that had done it was sad and felt bad for what he had done it wasn't his fault she wouldn't play with him He just wanted a friend none of the others would play with him either they all screamed when he touched their hair it was not their necks snapped like twigs MoMA said he must be crazy to play with such weak pets

The Vampire LATHEN stooped on a ledge overlooking the city he could hear everything from the Hooker on the corners raspy breathing to the punk kids in the ally way throwing dice for chump change

He was waiting for someone, no not to kill which he failed at the very thought after hundreds of years that sort of thing became a necessity than a sport that he had once enjoyed

No the person he was waiting for was a cop not the run of the mill police officer however a badass beat detective who had been around the block a few times one that knew and respected the Dark side of things

The Vampire Lathen's nostrils flared as he smelt the unstable odor of old colon and gallons of Blood he swooped up wared in a fliping movent off the ledge and landed on the upper rooftop light as a feather

Ray strait was surprised to see him Dam I hate it when you do that Lathen I was just about to call you However I guess there is no need

The Vapire lathens Lip moved up revealing Pointed fangs in a slight smile

Is that for me the vampire asked pointing at the four milk jugs Detective strait had at his feet

Yea four blood banks and you get for galleons of Type A + and let me tell you the shit I had to go through to sneak these things out as well

The vampire Lathen replied color me impressed at your tragedy However you know the Red chalice society Rules we don't work for you unless the price is met

Yea well you will want this case LG the creeper is operating on your grounds and I hear tell you guys are like real protetive of your hunting grounds

The vampire hated that detective strait was hitting a nerve

But he was very right if anything a Vampire did it was protecting his feeding ground it was the one sanction The Red Chalice society looked the other way on

So what the deal why haven't your cops hunted down this person

Detective Strait shook his head They are looking for a man Their not looking for a monster

The Vampire Lathan laughed what makes you think its one of our kind off the path Detective strait opened a folder and laid it on the jugs of blood its all in there this one you might want to be careful with LG I haven't seen this before The Vampire Lathen

Looked down at the folder Before Detective Strait could say anything else The four jugs were emptied clean as a whistle and the folder was gone along with the Vampire

The Vampire Lathen sat on his thrown in his cave paging the contents of the folder he now knew why Detective Strait didn't believe it was a man the heads of the victims were completely twisted backward the limbs snapped like twigs

One victim spine was crushed these injuries were more Like high impacted the force alone for someone to do this kind of damage would be supernatural strength

As he looked at the photos He started to remember

1656

The girl was very desirable she had many gentlemen callers but one interloper was a soldier by the name of Major Marshal he was a Navy man who had been cursed by a sea witch who he had crossed over of all things love his body was changed into a humungous that's the best way to describe Him forever making anyone he Crossed paths with fear him his mind became feeble The only thing he could remember was the girl and how he wanted to play with her

One night the humongous Major Marshal broke through the poor girl's room and grabbed her lifting her off the bed by her face saying in unintelligible words be my friend and play with me

The girl kicked her dangling feet franticly then she went limp as the life went out of here humongous had crushed her skull

For days the townspeople Including The Vampire LG in the despise of a human hunted the Humongous Major Marshel into the deep swamps where it was assumed he sank into the bog because he was never seen again

2020

The Vampire LG Thoughts came to the present moments

Could the humongous return after all these years The thought as to this

made him think of the swamp something had to have happened to the swamp where he lived

The Humongous watched with interest as the men in the funny clothing and white hats shouted they had lowed things like sharks that cut down his trees He had hidden in these wooded swamps with mother for a long time father was like him But one day mother and father didn't wake up he just tried to hug them but they were like everything else they broke and didn't wake up so being alone and only 100 years old he was sad and lonely the people he was going to say hello to screamed all he did was smake one on the head to get it to be quiet it wasn't his fault that the thing's body sucked the head into its shoulder like a turtle People were so weak

The Vampire LG moved over the wooded swamp Till he came to a small rundown house he noted that it was only four miles from the new highway at one time it would have been Fifty Miles into Uncharted swampland there was the smell of old death in the air death that only a vampire-like himself could smell

The dead things around were everywhere as Lathan the vampire entered the house he stopped there in front of him was a 12-foot scalation and a nine-foot one it was that of a woman and there was a huge baby crib that was six feet long So this is what became of you Major Marshal your offspring killed you Now to figure out where he or she is if its mind is anything like yours No one is safe not to mention its probably much larger than you judging from that crib

Detective Strait sat at his desk looking at the phone his captain came up Hey Strait you know a watched pot never boils

Strait looked up saying ya

The captain said so your still waiting for that mystery informant on the Bone Breaker case don't worry he or she will call go home get some sleep and for God sake shower that colon your wearing isn't masking the fact you have been here three days none stop do me a favor get a life will ya that's an order when you get back the Bone Breaker case will still be here sadly

It was going on midnight and Terry Marlon had been on the job all day he was muttering to himself about one last ride when someone ran past his cab the man that ran was terrified he had come from the ally behind him

Terry's first thought was the man was just in a bad drug deal or he was a homeless guy who just got spooked by some random noise Whatever it was the Rats that were staying out of the ally didn't much like it either

Terry's curiosity took over and he got the nerve to turn his lights on and flash them in the darkened ally to light it up

A huge thing about 15 feet tall illuminated raising a huge arm to cover its grotesque features and it shouted in a jumbled word lights hurt Toby just for a split second the humongous was still and then as if braking the moment it roared and slammed huge fists down on the hood of the cab with crushing boom steel and tires exploded Terry screamed Holy shit and turned to run But with one stride the Humongous was on him swinging out its hands grabbing terry up like a child grabs a toy doll shouting bad little man hurt Toby Now Toby hurt man Terry's screamed one last time as his arms legs and torsal were ripped apart The humongous shook what was left and said Toby not mad no more little man you punished enough and then he through the pieces down and could hear dis-tent sounds and flashing lights coming He turned back in the ally and like agile monkey went up the side of the building and got lost on the shadowy rooftops

Detective strait sat on the edge of his bed the clock on his nightstand was flashing 1235 pm strait reached for a cigarette lite it and sucked in deep setting off a fit of coughing Dam he cussed these things are going to kill me

A voice at his window replied they may do that but don't worry dying isn't all bad I've been shot and burned at the stake even hung

Strait looked up to see The Vampire La then Said I was waiting for your call

The Vampire night Drinker growled you humans and Phones I per-fer face to face you cant know if the person on the other end is lying However look a man in the eyes and his soul cant hide the truth as to his thoughts and true nature

Detective Strait shook his head saying that's why they have lie detectors

The vampire Night Drinker said found out what you're dealing with and It's not good You have a humungous living somewhere in the city

Detective strait looked puzzled The Vampire Night Drinker continued it's like a troll but all the bad things a troll has to worry about like sunlight turning it to stone this thing doesn't its skin, however, is rock hard so bullets won't affect it The fact is the only way to take one of these things out is to crush it These Humungous are very dim-witted and act on hunger and above all play

Detective strait asked what do you mean play

The vampire said they see anything living as a toy people in operatically they have a fondness for soft things and their utter strength tears the soft things apart that's why some of you victimize limbs where crushed or torn apart

Can you track this Humongous Detective strait asked

No, we Vampires can usually Track anything with blood However these things skin is so thick it masks the smells Truth be known these dam things even scare our Kind

I dealt with one of the first of these things a long time ago

So how did you kill it and where did it come from Detective strait asked

Well it was be-leaved to be a curse on a man named Major Marshal the story goes he fell in love with a sea witch however when he found out the true form he turned away from her in search of other love well its here in our story where the sea witch gets so angry she casts a most powerful spell on Major Marshal turning him into a humungous and any of his offspring

How did you kill this Major Marshal please tell me you did reply Detective strait

I wish we could say that we chased it to the swamps back then and lost it sense it never came back time last and people went along with their lives and forgot about the Humugus some say it drowned In the swamps

Detective Strait puffed on his cigarette it didn't the Dam thing is back why now

The vampire Lathan replied a day ago I flew to a place in the swamp and found a house inside was two skeletons both crushed one was no doubt the remains of Major Marshal huge grotesque

So if he's dead how in the hell is he in downtown killing people

and what killed him

Vampire Lathen replied it's his offspring there was a baby crib in that house and the bad part is after it killed its parents it started killing every living thing around the house in a four-mile area or should I say playing with things

Detective Strait asked what made this thing come out of the swamp

They are building a new housing settlement and roads back there right over its hunting grounds Replied Lathen the Vampire

Christ strait said so the dam thing is forced out right here in the city Your City

Vampire Lathen looked out at the lights This thing can't hide forever its about 12 to 15 feet tall with the intelligence of a pea and the strength of a bull dosser sooner or later it has to come out to play

Detective strait was about to reply but he would have been talking to himself The Vampire Lathen was gone

It was straits phone that shocked him back to reality

Detective strait grabbed the phone

The voice on the other end was cold Mr. Strait The Red Chalice society is Requesting you presents Miss White will be downstairs in the company car awaiting you promptly at 2am

Before Detective strait could respond the Phone went dead

The Red Chalice was not something strait liked to be called to quit frankly those that were on the board of directors gave Detective strait the creeps not in the same way as LATHEN THE VAMPIRE but in a way like they looked at him as the main cores a few things on the board where definitely flesh eaters and Werewolves, In fact, Miss white was one a where wolf that is she was turned willingly The offer of a high position on the Red Chalice Society was a lure to good to pass up not to mention her husband is a founding member Don t ask how she was turned lets just say its a messy bloody painful experience some don't live through the bite and the first Transformation its akin to shedding ones skin to release the beast inside

Detective Strait stood on the corner when the company car pulled up it was a black limo with a Red Chalice on its door the driver got out and opened the back door for Detective Strait

Strait noticed the man didn't have a face he was either a slender man or a boogeyman a smooth seductive voice from inside said Detective Strait please get in

Lathan the vampire flew across the rooftops looking in every place he thought the Humongous maybe It was this when he saw a gang of Black snakes pushing around women and a man he was going to let it go but his hunger said otherwise

Hey lady what in the purse shouted one as he grabbed at the women's the other two black snakes were going at the man

The Vampire Night Drinker was about to attack when the Lady pulled a huge gun out of her purse and shot the guy who was grabbing at her right in the face sending a spay of brains and blood exploding out the back of his head

The two that were pushing the guy suddenly turned and shouted The lady pointed the gun and pulled the trigger once more shooting another in the butt yelling you sons a bitches Ill kill every other fucking one ya

The two Black Snakes started running they ut down an ally way the Vampire Night Drinker flew overhead the Blood trail was fresh his nostrils flared

Tony, the one that was shot said I gotta stop man that bitch got me good I cant walk Tony turned to see the Vampire Night Drinker land behind them Oh shit he yelled It sucks to be you man

Tony turned and ran Tony where you going don't leave me dude

The Vampire Night Dinker laughed as the kid turned to see him

Tony was running around another corner when he heard the scream of joey He ran in two of his gang's hideout shouting Greg got waisted and that thing got joey The gang members started to laugh at Toneys high man

Know really Toney shouted that thing got joey What thing and wheres Greg just then The skylight crashed down on top of them as a body was dropped through it the girls started to scream as one yelled what the hell

The Vampire Night Drinker dropped down and Grabbed the first person closest to him and sunk his fangs deep into the guys neck the body shriveled up to husk this sent everyone running to the door shouting in fear and horror

The Vampire night Drinker turned to mist and shot through the crowd of people trying to reach the door anyone that was touched by the mist was drained of blood and dropped to the floor within seconds 29 bodies were piled up on the floor the Vampire Night Drinker was quite Satisfied as he turned solid again that's when Toney came running up behind him with a pool stick and jammed it into the Vampires back Yelling die Vampire Die

The Vampire Lathen reached down and pulled out the stick Saying Oh Toney you idiot I was going to let you live

Detective strait sat down in the limo Hello Mis White said let's get to it you have a problem You have been speaking to people about monsters

Detective You know if people start believing monsters are running around the city we will have a panic on our hands

Ya well Monsters are real and we have one running around killing people Detective Strait replied I thought the Red Chalice had made some sort of deal with the supernatural beings only to hunt bad guys

Miss White leaned forward adjusting her seat the limo started to drive Yes this is true normally However there are exceptions to the rules

Detective strait said let me guess creatures too stupid to understand like this Humungous Monster we are dealing with

Miss white shifted in her seat again saying Yes that being said we have some wolves on its sent so we need you to back off just let things go as they are let the police keep chasing this bone breaker man trust the Red Chalice we can handle this thing

Detective strait replies well my man thinks different

You referring to The vampire Night Drinker well he is off the reservation don't work well with others He has been a thorn in the Red Chalies side

The limo stopped and the door opened

Detective Strait let it go best not to waves Miss white gestured for Detective strait to get out

WOLF HUNT

Four young werewolves from the Red Chalice society were on the trail of the humungous they had cornered it in an empty warehouse disliked

The Humungous Toby was tired he knew that he was being chased to hi it was a game and good play However in his mind the play had gone on long enough he liked to hide and seek Mama used to play it with him but she always let him win These dog men didn't know he was supposed to win they were not playing right so Humungous Toby would tell them The young werewolves move very fast throw the buildings

They had a good scent trail on the Humungous every once in a while they would stop and listen sniffing the air

The Humungous Toby was watching them To a man they would have been large scary monsters huge six-foot muscular beasts

To the humongous Toby toys to brake

The four werewolves were surprised and shocked when Toby jumped out from behind some smashed cars and yelled found you

The Red Chalice society was waiting to hear from the four werewolves it had been three days with no word That was unusual

Miss White had been specific as to those wolves to track down the Humungous and report back to her

Now the board founders wanted answers

Mister Groves the VP of the Red Chalice society sat behind his desk going over papers when his intercom Buzzed

Mister Groves Mis white is here the secretary said

Ok send her in

Mis white was nervous she had only been to see Mister Groves one other Time and that was to Talk about allowing Detective strait to join the Red chalice she convinced mister Groves it would be a good thing to have a detective on their side

Mister Groves did not look up when Miss White entered his office

Please take a seat Miss White

It has come to our attention that four werewolves were found torn to pieces

Miss White slumped back in her chair saying I didn't know

Mister Groves looked up saying But it was your seton that sent those young boys out after that monstrosity

Miss white shook her head It was my section yes however we gave specific orders not to engage

Well is White they engaged all right one's head was twisted all the way around the other three were in much worse shape who the hell authorized you to send those wolves out on a suicide mission

Miss white replied I have it on good authority That the vampire Night Drinker is working with detective strait

Mister Groves seemed to look less angry Well that is a hell of a thing why didn't you just let the Night drinker and the detective handle this one

Miss white answered we thought it best not to trust the vampire Night Drinker he had chased one of these creatures before and let the dam thing go

Mister Groves replied perhaps so However he does know more about these beasts than we do

I want you to seek out The night Drinker and pay his price Let him know that this is a job with no sanctions if anyone or thing gets in the way He has the backing of the red chalice to dispatch of them in any way necessary to Kill this Humungous before it draws any more unwanted attention on the supernatural beings

Before Miss white could reply Mister Groves said that will be all I believe you can find your way out good day Miss white

The Night was a bit chilly Ricky the local new Orleans haunted Tour guide was doing his thing

Look here he shouted this is the Building where sping heeled jack attacked leasa Arson and strangled her to near death before the police shot him five times But no my friends he did not die

He just Jumped over their heads and sprang quickly as a wink right up the side of this building the police never found him or figured out where he went

A lady in the tour group interrupted Ricky saying as she pointed Their on the roof Their he is Ricky turned to see a huge figure jumping down to the ground it grabbed the lady in one huge hand and scaled the adjoining building the lady screaming for help Others in the tour group started to run in every direction shouting sping healed jack took Rosey

The Humugus moved over the rooftops very fast the woman he held had passed out and stopped screaming that was ok by him this plaything was very noisy Perhaps passing out saved her life for the time being

Detective Strait sat at his office desk he was going over some things in his head miss white must be very worried that the red chalice founders will find out that a monster got away and was not under their thumbs
For her to go to such details as to not wanting it to be captured by the police He supposed that the jig would be up if the main newspapers splashed all over the front page real monster running loose in the city of New Orleans

It was bad enough that they were saying the bone breaker was loose

a young-looking Detective wearing a blue shirt and Coffee colored tie interrupted Detective Straits thoughts Hey Ray he said we got a witness as to the bone Breaker Case The guys a local haunted tore guid Names Ricky Sims

Yea I heard that name before replied Detective Strait he scams tourists with fake legions of New Orleans monsters for money

Well Detective Patterson Laughed Ricky said this one was 15 feet tall had huge hands and limed buildings like king kong

Supposedly snatched a women Right out of the tore group

Detective Strait started to laugh look Paterson we are looking for a monster True But a 15-foot jack in the bean stock giant, please

Yea I know replied Detective Paterson But people in the tore group said they saw spring Heald Jack it's crazy I know But its the only lead we have so far on the bone breaker

Detective strait knew everything that was said was true but he could not let on that he believed any of it

You go follow that false lead peter and you will end up back as a beat cop

Detective Patterson replied What happen to you Strait I remember a time you believed the city was chock-full of monsters

Yea and look where it got me three psycho evaluations last month alone I woke up so should you

Vampire Lathen had gotten the call from Miss white He guessed the top brass had something to say that meant they wanted him and detective straits help after all

Miss White was afraid of him she knew he could control werewolves with but a thought It was within the Vampire Night Drinkers power In the old days they called the werewolves Dog Men or Hell Hounds they were created to watch over Vampitrs well they slept during the day Or so it was said The truth is Vampires are just as comfortable in daylight as in the night although not at their full power The fact is there was a lot of false beliefs about vampire legion

The Vampire night Drinker sat watching Miss white move nervously down below in the ally way she passed like a dog trapped in a cadge No doubt she had already smelt the air and knew he had arrived

I know your here ND she said why the game The Vampire night Drinker flew down and landed softly saying But my dear Miss white what fun is the afterlife without the Game

Miss white shivered at the Vampires cold demeanor I here at the bequest of the Red Chalice board they want you to hunt down the Humungous and kill it with any means peasantry you and Detective strait will be paid full price on completion

Vampire Lathan started to laugh You messed up didn't you he said

Miss white look horrified what do you mean LG

Come on Miss white I read your mind You sent a couple of dogs and they failed I can smell their blood sent in the air

You tell your Mr greeves Ill kill the beast However It's double the blood This thing cant just be drained or controlled its to stupid and shooting it is a no go

It has to be trick lead it someplace where it can do no harm

The hour was late Detective strait found himself driving down the streets looking in alleyways and watching rooftops In hopes of seeing the Humongous

He didn't know that the Humongous had found its way into the addict space of the old museum the Humongous was scared and tired its feeble mind confused desperately wanting to go back to the swamps where he was free to play with his soft toy animals

he had friends the huge black bear father said was for food after Toby pulled its spine out after it tried to play scratch and bite him Toby was sad but mother cooked it and Toby stomach was full That made him happy There were plenty more friend animals in the swamp The Humungous started to get angry it was the little men's fault he was lost His feeble mind snapped he would play with them now

Lathan the Vampire was confused he thought he was on the Humongous trail following the scent of dead things and blood it had left behind

But for some reason, the Humongous had stopped killing and seemed to just vanish

The last kill was an unlucky taxi driver There was also reports of the abduction of some lady on a tore group Lathan the Vampire checked that out however the killing pattern didn't fit the woman surely would have been found dead by now But she wasn't Lathan the vampire's stomach turned he hated the fact that this thing was loose in his hunting ground he had made dumb sure he cleaned up after himself when he fed The police called him the night drinker Vampire killer in the papers he liked being on the front pages But now it was like the news had forgotten him Everything was the Bone crusher or bone breaker whatever nickname they gave the humongous to sell papers Some idiot sent in a grainy picture of the Humongous and every paper ran a headline saying Giant loose in the City

Detective Strait sat in a half baked dinner lost in thought drinking cold coffee watching a cockroach scurry across the table dragging a sweet and low packet When a fist slammed down on it smashing startling Detective strait out of his trance There was a big man standing there with a stuffy face and long black hair dressed in Jeans and a black T-shirt with a target symbol in the center The man said Dumb I hate those things they give me the creep then he slides in the other side of the booth next to Detective Strait Saying I know you were expecting Master Lathan But he's busy Doing your job

Detective Strait said Well Jim if he would have sent you that means he is having his lackeys do his

Jim Growled saying Tooshay perhaps we are his lackeys You more than I

Just then the two men were interrupted by the Diner waitress saying Detective Can I get your friend something Jim smiled showing his pointed teeth Saying How bought you tussal me up a very rare stake

Detective Strait reach across the table showing his gun Jim looked down and sniffed he could smell the silver nitrate bullets in it

Dumb Strait I was just funing Said Jim

Detective strait replied I wasn't

Now tell Lathan the vampire we think the Humongous went underground

Ok if you don't mind I'll get my stake to go suddenly I hear the call Talk at you later

Jim moved supernaturally fast out of the booth

Detective Strait eased his gun back in its hoster looking out the window as he saw a huge black wolf-like shadow dart up a nearby wooded hill pass in between buildings

Detective Strait New he was talking toa werewolf But had no idea he was talking to the master werewolf smoking Jim